Toy storage within big cupboards

[Tertius]

We are buying a new house and I am so exited - thinking though all the rooms and mentally moving in. We are currently in a small flat with two children and they are going to have a big room.

I need some clever thinker to help me work out the toy storage. I originally wanted clear boxes in a classroom like frame. Like ikea offer. So you can put boxes in and out. But the room has massive fitted cupboards already. Is there any way I can make the cupboards work with clear boxes to pull out? I'm not v experienced with diy and this kind of thing. Ideas much appreciated.

Will any of Ikea Trofast storage fit in the cupboard? I love that system, really flexible and hides lots!

I have huge fitted cupboards and find those cheap plastic sets of drawers are great. You can just lift out each drawer so no hassle for the DC trying to unstack crates, and it's easy to see what's in each compartment.

I'd buy lots of ordinary big plastic crates and put in shelves at the right spacing.

Keep it really cheap and simple so you can alter it to narrower shelves if DCs want fiddly small things latter, or you want to lose shelves and make hanging space.

We've done what startail suggested, and it is great. Currently the bottom shelves used for toys, middle ones for clothes, and out of reach ones for stuff I want to chuck out if they don't ask for them.

Poachedeggs is right you need shelves or plastic draw units. Stacked grates don't work.

A) if you over fill them they don't stack
B) you have to get them the right way round
C) most importantly, every sodding make of plastic box is a slightly different shape.

You start with ones that stack and the little darlings climb in them, use them as steps or simply leave them in the sun and they crack. Next lot don't stack on the remaining old ones.

I don't have cupboards, but DD2 and the playroom have shelves and Argos cubes that any normal sized crate will fit and it works well.

Thanks all - are fitted cupboards usually a standard size? Cam I just get a builder to fit sliding things inside and then clear drawers? That

Grew up with no storage at all (old house, old fashioned stand alone cupbaords and chest of drawers) so no idea!

Our fitted wardrobes are built across alcoves caused by, chimney breasts, stairs and airing cupboards, defiantly not standard size. Internal fittings are pine battens and bits of scrap white melamine. Some done before we moved in and some done by DH to give DD1 a shelf she could reach.

Thank you. Definitely no stacking crates.

Ideally boxes that slide in and right out.

After that, shelves with boxes on them.

Very helpful for clarifying my thoughts and helping me think it through.

Our cupboards haven't got internal fittings (apart from a low bench-style shelf) so we just sit the drawer units inside, job done and extremely cheap!

We just got a joiner to put in some shelves.